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Sarri needs to rotate him with Higuain. He can offer a lot towards the end of games when we are chasing a goal. For example against Wolves. he would have bullied those Wolves defenders. 

The ball moves faster when his not on the pitch. We seem to have less of the sideways passing plus our pressing is also in sync. 

I know its only Dynamo but with each passing week Im more confident we will be fine after Hazard leaves. Our best team performances all season have been without him. His been the X factor but overall has caused some of the teething problems we have with Sarri's system. 

Hudson Odoi has been okay. 

We better stat pad. Its been a while since we stat padded

The ball moves faster when his not on the pitch. We seem to have less of the sideways passing plus our pressing is also in sync. 

I know its only Dynamo but with each passing week Im more confident we will be fine after Hazard leaves. Our best team performances all season have been without him. His been the X factor but overall has caused some of the teething problems we have with Sarri's system. 

The ball moves faster when his not on the pitch. We seem to have less of the sideways passing plus our pressing is also in sync. 

The ball moves faster when his not on the pitch. We seem to have less of the sideways passing plus our pressing is also in sync. 

I know its only Dynamo but with each passing week Im more confident we will be fine after Hazard leaves. Our best team performances all season have been without him. His been the X factor but overall has caused some of the teething problems we have with Sarri's system. 

I know its only Dynamo but with each passing week Im more confident we will be fine after Hazard leaves. Our best team performances all season have been without him. His been the X factor but overall has caused some of the teething problems we have with Sarri's system. 

It's got to the point with Hazard now that if he doesn't go he is showing a general lack of ambition, which is a problem in itself.
It would appear that he would be willing to settle for the easy life with us, knowing he could get away with inconsistent performances throughout a season but yet still be first name on the team sheet.   Real fans are unlikely to take to him if he does go, because of his personality. It all feeds in to itself.
If he goes this summer, we’ve still had his best years.

Yeah know what you mean, but 'Looking like' and reality are two different things. It was bad when Drogs, JT, Lampard went but sky didn't fall in, and the club endures.

If he does leave, then it might at least break the vicious cycle of over-relying on Hazard, be it from the board off the pitch and the team on it.

I absolutely love Hazard, but dont you guys think our over reliance on him is the reason we have regressed so much as a team in the last 3 years? Yes his arguably Chelsea's best ever player but I am with Sarri, he needs to move more off the ball, Hazard is a ball hog (an excellent one by all means) however I think letting him go might be better for us in the medium to long term. We need to reestablish an identity. All the great Chelsea sides (the ones with Lampard, DD and Terry did not have this over reliance on one guy and had a system) I remember winning important games when Drogba, Lamps, Terry or Ballack were not playing. We need to go back to that philosophy were the greater sum of the team is better or more important than one person's individual talent. 

I absolutely love Hazard, but dont you guys think our over reliance on him is the reason we have regressed so much as a team in the last 3 years? Yes his arguably Chelsea's best ever player but I am with Sarri, he needs to move more off the ball, Hazard is a ball hog (an excellent one by all means) however I think letting him go might be better for us in the medium to long term. We need to reestablish an identity. All the great Chelsea sides (the ones with Lampard, DD and Terry did not have this over reliance on one guy and had a system) I remember winning important games when Drogba, Lamps, Terry or Ballack were not playing. We need to go back to that philosophy were the greater sum of the team is better or more important than one person's individual talent. 

I have to agree with you. Few times we have actually looked better as a team when Hazard was not playing and I'm not so sure how well would he ever fit to Sarri's high energy high pressing football

I absolutely love Hazard, but dont you guys think our over reliance on him is the reason we have regressed so much as a team in the last 3 years? Yes his arguably Chelsea's best ever player but I am with Sarri, he needs to move more off the ball, Hazard is a ball hog (an excellent one by all means) however I think letting him go might be better for us in the medium to long term. We need to reestablish an identity. All the great Chelsea sides (the ones with Lampard, DD and Terry did not have this over reliance on one guy and had a system) I remember winning important games when Drogba, Lamps, Terry or Ballack were not playing. We need to go back to that philosophy were the greater sum of the team is better or more important than one person's individual talent. 

is there a more uninspiring sight in world football than him running forward to join the attack?

Been travelling non stop since I left The Bridge which is why this review is late.
Missed Hazards goal as I had to leave early to get to Heathrow on time for a flight. I would never leave a game that was still in the balance early out of choice and I was shocked by the numbers that did. I was disappointed to miss Eden's goal but I had no alternative, some people were on the tube kicking themselves and rightly so.
Now onto the game, I thought we were brilliant for the first twenty five minutes, fast buildup and combinations while winning the ball back up high on what felt like a record number of occasions but then we slowed down, back to the pedestrian sterile possession of the winter period which led to growing frustration in the crowd.
I think in the 90 minutes we deserved to win, we penned back and contained a very dangerous counter attacking side and limited them to one opportunity all game which they unfortunately took.
Sarri also said he will start looking at formation changes when his side are in tune with the basics of his football, which is a good sign I'm guessing.
RLC was decent when he came on, I have said in the past I think he is a super sub type player (ala a midfield version of a Javier Hernandez), I feel his burst of pace against tired defenses causes problems and when he starts he often drifts out of the game easily and when he doesn't initially he does after an hour. CHO was awful unless I missed something in the last seven minutes and it was a reality check for anyone who thinks he should be an immediate starter, but it's all part of the learning curve so hopefully he gets more chances in similar situations.
Jorginho wasn't anywhere near as bad as people are making out but Kovacic probably had his worst game for us.
All in all I think the draw despite lots of territorial dominance was quite applicable to where we are right now, and thanks to United losing I still think we are in a good position for top four as they won't repeat their recent run and Arsenal (and Emery) are weak as shit away from home.

David Luiz - such an idiot. He's so good on the ball, but a ticking bomb as a defender. Wolves 2 v 4 on the counter and Luiz takes himself out with the most useless tackle you will ever see... We're toothless up front have to admit it, but this season has been all about poor positioning at the back and brain dead defenders, it's where we've lost the majority of the points. 
Wolves home & away, Leicester at home, Bournemouth away - Matches we were simply controlling, going for the win, but for some reason defence got bored and fucked everything up. That's just 11 points lost out of pure stupidity and rash decisions from some low IQ footballers. 
This season has been all about certain players switching off at the wrong fucking time... 

Kenyon originally said that Roman's plan was for the transfer to happen in 'ten years'. I can't see how he could have meant that literally but I've long believed that Arkadiy is involved in transfer decisions. In that first summer of heady spending, Bruce Buck made what could have been taken as a throwaway comment but which I think gave a good clue about the owner.
Bruce, in an effort to talk Roman up, stated that the owner had a huge database and an encyclopaedic knowledge of players. He claimed that no matter who you mentioned from around the world, Roman could tell you something about that player. Roman certainly had the money to employ people to put together such a database if he wished, but why would he have bothered? The database was obviously Football Manager and a strong knowledge of its contents must mean that Roman enjoyed the game and spent some time playing it.
How many of us could have resisted the temptation to play the game for real if we had the dosh? Not me, that's for sure. Also, why not bond with your lad and play your favourite game together? Complete guesswork I accept, but I do think Arkadiy is involved. One thing which I will never be persuaded to accept, outside of absolute evidence, is the notion that Marina plays any part whatsoever in selecting transfer targets. Giving an opinion on how much can be afforded as a recruitment cost, for sure; making a football decision on player x is better for the squad than player y, never in a million years.
As for the stadium, we have been prisoners of our location and of the granite like conservatism of football fans. The best thing for the club was, and still is, a move away from Stamford Bridge but the range of options for that move is too small to allow any suitable site to be found. If we fans were more far-sighted the club may be able to widen the search and find that elusive site. CFC's inability to get this done is something our successors as Blues' fans may well live to regret in coming decades. 

I would go as far as saying LB is our number 1 priority this summer.
He was certainly quicker to get forward and offer the overlap compared to Alonso which helped speed things up at times but his decision making going forward in possession wasn't any better and his defending was worse than anything i have ever seen from Marcos, a couple of times attacks were coming down our left and he wasn't even near the LB area.

First game I watched of Emerson in the PL and have to say that he was very poor... I hope this is not his normal, because the passing was nowhere near this level: all backwards and safe passes esp under pressure. Outmuscled easily out of plays and produced little to nothing in attack.
Ross' performance was also worrying, but yeah the team was a bit sluggish overall. Need to keep rotating to get them a bit fresher.

He's on a different level to every player in the Prem imo.
You're right about the B2B role. 
It's worth highlighting that the last two games where he played as the holding midfielder in front of two centre backs for us we shipped 5 goals in a game and a half. We were so defensively poor that Conte had to switch to two deep lying central midfielders protecting three central defenders just to plug the gaps. Given that system was eventually sussed out and led to us being outplayed by the likes of Watford, Bournemouth plus the debacle of the white flag waving at City I don’t understand the clamour to return to systems that have ultimately failed previously.